Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today we are doing a review of the Jones Road
What The Foundation, which is this one here.
Notorious.
What other words can you use to describe it? You know, you know.
So we are doing a review of it today.
We won't be touching on the viral TikTok situation.
We're just going to be looking at
the foundation, seeing how it is.
I'll do a bit of makeup, see how it
sits for an hour. Just before we get into
that today, if this is your first time here.
My name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup artist here
on YouTube, also in real life.
And it's my goal to help you become a pro
yourself or just someone who's really good at makeup.
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Okay, so I have two shades.
I have light and fair.
So looking at the shades, I wasn't too sure what
to go for because fair and light isn't usually...
light, light-medium is usually my skin
during like the Winter kind of period in England.
However, I saw and I hope I'm saying his name right.
Tyler Hysko on TikTok
use fair and it looked dark.
I was like, what fair person is going to be this shade?
So I did grab the fair and I grabbed the light.
And this is the light...
let me show you. That's light.
Like light to me would be like
palm of my hand, almost like here.
So just a pre-warning there.
Now, just before going into using this foundation, I
want to say exactly what I said as well
when I used the Wayne Goss Foundation, right.
There seems to be... I know we said we weren't
going to talk about it, but after that viral TikTok
situation, there seemed to be a lot of feedback on
how you're meant, supposed to use this foundation.
And people were saying, don't apply anything before.
Don't do this. Don't use a brush. Don't use a sponge.
Use a brush, use a sponge. Don't use your fingers.
Use your fingers.
And everyone was saying, you know, it's being used wrong,
which in the case, the drastic case of
Meredith using it completely wrong because that's not
how you use any foundation, they were correct.
However, on other terms, when you're using just
a small amount and just using a brush
or something like that, it shouldn't be that
complicated is what I'm getting to, basically.
You buy a foundation, you should be
able to incorporate it into your routine.
Whether that means adapting your skincare very slightly to
a foundation, how you prep, how you don't prep,
how you then finish, can change slightly.
However, there shouldn't be like so many rules that you
need the whole of the Internet to help you, you know?
So here's what I'm going to do today.
I have prepped my skin how I would normally, that's what
I'm going to do. If it doesn't work out, then tomorrow
I will try something different during my wear test.
So my skin currently has a serum on and that's it.
I would like to see how it goes
on top of sunscreen, but we will see.
Okay, so let's take a look at the foundation here.
So it does have that kind of oily separation, which,
to be honest with you, I don't really care about.
It doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
You get some foundations that have
that oily separation as well.
This is a By Terry one that I need to
shake up every time I want to use it.
There's a few that have that situation.
The difference with this one for me
is having to actually mix it yourself.
So I did get a spatula, which again, the
spatula is something I'm going to have to clean now
but I will use a product from it.
It does have a smell of
essential oils, but it's not overpowering.
It's just a clean smell. It's nice.
It's not like too sickly or anything like that.
Now, as I mentioned in my reaction video about this
foundation, if you haven't seen it, I'll link it below.
I have a feeling I'm not going
to like this foundation on me. Here's why.
My skin is extremely oily. That's it.
It's not made for me in any way at all.
But being a professional makeup artist, using my years
of knowledge, my 16 years of knowledge in the
industry, working on many clients, working on many different
situations, skin type, skin tones, skin, textures.
I can see the formula and I'll see how it sits.
And I'll be able to recommend it to
people who it may be good for.
Ok, so let's do it.
Let's zoom into my face
and let's apply this foundation.
I'm kind of excited about this. Okay.
Is that almost too close? I don't know.
Okay, so I'm going to take a little bit off the spatula.
This is the shade...
What shade was it again? Light.
And I'm going to start my fingers first.
I'm going to start in the middle of my face.
And I'm going to start by tapping it into those areas first
just to kind of get an idea of the texture.
It does move very well.
However, I do feel like I'm going to
have to build it up a little bit,
just in some areas where I'm slightly red.
By no means is this foundation going to
give me full coverage, but we'll see how
much coverage I can get from it.
Yeah, I'm going to have to make sure that I
get every single little area
and make sure it's tapped in because you can kind of see it.
I don't know if you can see here... no, you can't see that well on camera.
It's kind of gripping to some texture here, which isn't so great.
I do wonder what it would be like, just with like
a really soft brush if I was to use my
fingers and then use a brush with softer edges just
to get those little bits. Let's do my nose here.
Now, my nose is where I have the
most texture, especially around, like, these areas here.
It has a very, very subtle coverage.
It almost just reduces the redness.
And you can still see my skin underneath.
It's very, I guess very Bobbi Brown.
Not the brand, the person.
So I'm just using my brush in
those areas where it's slightly more textured.
And perhaps my finger isn't giving the best results.
But just out of interest, I'm just going to
use only the brush on my forehead just to
see, just to see how it goes.
I did start to use my fingers
there, but I just want to see...
Yeah, it doesn't quite travel as well with
the brush, to be honest with you.
I keep catching little areas that I swear
I've blended and it almost looks like it's
starting to separate, especially around these areas here.
You can see around this area here.
I've blended this bit already and it's separating again.
It looks almost like it's been on for a few hours.
And my skin is oily, but I'm not oily yet,
so it's not my oils necessarily interrupting with the product.
It's almost like the product
is interfering with itself.
You can't really build too much of a full
coverage, and that's fine.
Around the nose here I didn't really manage to build it up
on top of itself very much.
So my skin looks even, like if I was to
see someone with the skin, I'd be like, oh,
my God, they have really nice skin.
First impressions are not so great.
I'm having issues kind of here around this
area where the foundation looks like it's been...
Let me see if I can come closer.
The foundation looks like it's been sitting
for a while on my skin.
So that would suggest to me that not only
would you want... have to have not much
coverage, if you don't want much texture to show,
this probably isn't the best foundation to go for.
Okay, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to do some makeup,
and then it'll take me... I'll take it slow.
So I'll do like 45 minutes, like a look or
something, maybe even less, and then I will be back, okay.
Okay, so it is not long
after it's been about 30 minutes.
This eyeshadow is horrible, by the way.
I'm trying a new brand for me,
and it's just not very nice.
Anyway, I look terrible.
My skin looks terrible.
Let me zoom you in.
So I have put some concealer under
my eyes just for full... what's it called.
I look haggard.
I look haggard. In this area here especially.
And this was the area I was
having a bit of an issue with.
It does look very textured.
It looks very greasy and shiny. But you know what?
It doesn't feel greasy.
I have a little tap, it kind of just disappears.
It looks like I've been wearing it for a long time.
I am not greasy yet.
That is the foundation.
It's just how the foundation is on the skin.
Let me try putting some powder on top just
to mattify those areas that are slightly more...
You can see the texture more because of the shine.
Yeah, it looks like I'm
not really wearing any foundation.
Okay, so here is my summary of this foundation.
If you're oily, I wouldn't recommend it at all.
If you are combination, I wouldn't recommend it.
If you have a lot of texture, open
pores, maybe acne scarring or scarring on the
face, I also wouldn't recommend it.
The way it sets on the skin has this shine
to it that will accentuate any texture on the skin.
Okay, so here's what I'm thinking in my mind.
If I was to use this foundation on a client who had
extremely dry skin, I do feel like I will be touching it
up again in a few moments time, maybe an hour.
I'll be trying to like mattify a few areas.
I don't feel like it's worth the upkeep
versus something like a BB cream or CC
cream like you might as well use that.
This is extremely, an extremely oily foundation.
I personally wouldn't trust that it would sit
for a long time on most skin types.
In small amounts
it has an okay coverage, as in
it will even out your skin tone.
But then again, anything can like a BB cream,
a CC cream that doesn't have that oily kind
of unpredictable texture to it. It's an unpredictable formula
which I personally don't like very much.
Again, people are saying, oh, it's for older maturer skin.
I still don't see it sitting so great on maturer skin.
I have to be honest with you.
We seem to be having this moment of these barmy foundations that just
don't seem to be working as well as they should.
The Danessa Myricks one, is probably
the only one recently that I've liked.
It is quite dry though, so it's not great for oily skins...
for dryer skins and I think that's why I liked it.
Okay, I would love to know your opinions below.
It's a very different foundation.
I've been watching people's reviews and ever since the whole TikTok
thing, they've been very careful to be like, it's not for
me, but I would see it here, here and here.
This foundation isn't for me and personally, I don't see it
being great with most skin types.
I would be extremely wary to use it on
most skin types unless somebody is excessively dry.
Hello, I just have to add something in here quickly.
I tried to cut it out and I think I did.
But I did mention in this video that I was going to
do a wear test and I did do a wear test the
next day and it consisted of one video an hour later where
it pretty much looks like I didn't have a foundation on anymore.
I used different products.
I used a sun screen that I know
is completely mattifying and I've actually been wearing
underneath tinted moisturizers because it keeps my skin
matte for hours and hours and hours.
So I did do a wear test.
It lasted less than an hour on my skin.
Again, it's not made for my skin but this is a
foundation that I do... I kind of want to keep experimenting
with it because it does feel nice when it goes on.
So yeah, that's just my little
input right there for you.
I have to say though, everything else
Jones Road, their concealer, I swear by.
I think their concealer is absolutely stunning.
Love it, I adore it.
I think it's incredible.
This one is just a little bit of a miss for me.
I would love to know your opinions below.
Let me know if you've tried it yourself.
Thank you so, so much for joining me
and I will see you very, very soon. Bye.